Lead AI-Driven Data Platform Architect

KBX Logistics; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

KBX Logistics is seeking a Lead Solution Architect (Data & AI) to guide the Enterprise Data Platform, leveraging AWS expertise to design, build, and evolve AI-enabled data capabilities. This is a hands‑on role focusing on scalable patterns, governance, and secure access across analytics workloads.

You will mentor engineers, codify Terraform patterns, and collaborate with security and data teams to align architecture with business goals.

Qualifications

• Experience evaluating, designing, maintaining, or implementing AI/GenAI capabilities within enterprise data and technology environments.
• Experience designing solutions using AWS technologies such as Glue, S3, Redshift, Lambda, Step Functions, and IAM roles and policies.
• Exposure to applying GenAI/LLM patterns over enterprise data.
• Experience applying RBAC, data lineage, DR/HA, modular design, cost optimization.
• Experience influencing architecture and architectural strategy across the organization at various levels

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the architecture of the Enterprise Data Platform, including the integration patterns, governance controls, and platform capabilities required to support analytics, automation, AI, and agent‑based use cases.
• Lead solution architecture and hands‑on delivery of scalable data platform capabilities, including self‑service access patterns, APIs, data products, metadata services, and AI‑enabled experiences.
• Translate business, data, and AI opportunities into production‑ready architecture patterns that balance scalability, security, maintainability, and speed to value.
• Build foundational platform capabilities including metadata management, semantic models, orchestration frameworks, secure access patterns, observability, and governance services that enable analytics, automation, and AI workloads.
• Serve as the hands‑on architectural lead for the team’s AWS‑native platform architecture, owning design decisions and directly contributing to implementation.
• Continuously modernize data pipelines to reduce redundancy, control cost, and improve reliability and observability.
• Codify reusable architecture patterns (Terraform) and mentor data engineers to scale successful patterns across initiatives/projects.
• Serve as the solution architecture contributor in architecture review processes

Skills

AI/GenAI

RBAC

Data lineage

Cost optimization

Architecture strategy

Mentoring

Tools

AWS Glue

AWS S3

AWS Redshift

AWS Lambda

AWS Step Functions

IAM

Terraform

Job description

KBX Logistics is seeking a Lead Solution Architect (Data & AI) to guide the Enterprise Data Platform, leveraging AWS expertise to design, build, and evolve AI-enabled data capabilities. This is a hands‑on role focusing on scalable patterns, governance, and secure access across analytics workloads.

You will mentor engineers, codify Terraform patterns, and collaborate with security and data teams to align architecture with business goals.